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Author Matless, David

Title In the Nature of Landscape : Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads
Published Hoboken : Wiley, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Series RGS-IBG Book Series
RGS-IBG book series.
Contents In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface ; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements ; List of Abbreviations ; Chapter One Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads ; A Geographical Visit; Outline; Landscape Colloquial, Culture Resounding; Scenic Governance; Regional Cultural Landscape; The Broadland Scene; Part I Broadland Scene; Chapter Two Origins ; Broadland with the IBG (and RGS); Origin in Transgression; Artifice Discovered; Artifice Disputed; An Equivalent Pool; New Broads; Chapter Three Conduct
Terry and LydiaRegionally Self-Conscious: The Broads Discovered; Twentieth Century Pleasures; Policy Conduct; Icon I Wherry; Emblematic Sails; Norwich Vessels; Restorative; Broadland, South Kensington; Chapter Four Animal Landscapes; The Norfolk Room; Fauna Surveyed; Murder Most Fowl; Broadland Preserve; Species of Writing; Reserving Nature; The Public Animal; Icon and Intruder; Wings Conflicting; Chapter Five Plant Landscapes ; Plant Cultures; Becoming a Scientific Region; Science on Tour; Two Yare Valley Scientists; Plant Life in Reserve; Marsh Harvest; Succession: Experiment in Landscape
Icon II Windmill Mill Time; Wind Technology; Restorative; New Sails; Chapter Six The Ends of Landscape ; The Balance of Waters; The Death of Water; Broadland Drained; River Flood, Broadland Balance; Death by Water: Sea Flood; Broadland Sealand; Part II Broadland Signs; Chapter Seven Concluding ; Definition: Regional Cultural Landscape; Provision: Geographic Particularity; Colloquial: A Geography of Voice; Six Vantage Points; Notes ; Chapter One: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads; Chapter Two: Origins; Chapter Three: Conduct; Icon I: Wherry; Chapter Four: Animal Landscapes
Chapter Five: Plant LandscapesIcon II : Windmill; Chapter Six: The Ends of Landscape; Chapter Seven: Concluding; References ; Index
Summary In the Nature of Landscape presents regional cultural landscape as a new direction for research in cultural geography. Represents the first cultural geographic study of the Norfolk Broads region of eastern EnglandAddresses regional cultural landscape through consideration of narratives of landscape origin, debates over human conduct, the animal and plant landscapes of the region, and visions of the ends of landscape through pollution and floodDraws upon in-depth original research, spanning almost two decades of archival work, interviews, and field studyCovers a great diversity of topics, from
Notes Print version record
Subject Human geography -- England -- Broads, The
Landscapes -- England -- Broads, The
Ecology
Historical geography
Human geography
Landscapes
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Broads, The (England) -- Social life and customs
Broads, The (England) -- Historical geography
Broads, The (England) -- Environmental conditions
Subject England -- The Broads
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781118295724
1118295722